JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO - TWO VIRGINS RARE LP IN PAPER SLEEVE - COVER IS NM

$

37

Shipping within the US is set at $4.00 per package.  Therefore, if you buy one album, 2 albums, 10 albums or 20 albums, the shipping is $4.00.  I can fit up to about 25 single LP albums into my larger shipping box.

This item is a very rare and very cool collectible – a Tetragrammaton / Apple Records pressing of the Two Virgins vinyl LP, released in 1968.  You probably all know the “story” of how John and Yoko met, at a show of Yoko’s work with the ladder to the spyglass showing “yes”, the “Breathe” card and so on.  When they eventually got together, in the Biblical sense, it was during a period of time when Cynthia was on holiday in Greece.  I recently re-read Peter Brown’s The Love You Make, Goldman’s The Lives on John Lennon, Larry Kane’s book and May Pang’s Loving John, and all of them bear out the accuracy of the story how Cynthia learned of John and Yoko’s affair.  They all paint a disturbing picture of John, supported entirely by Philip Norman’s Lennon – A Life more recently.  In any event, this record was scandalous at the time on so many levels.  Most of all, of course, was the cover art.  I think this was an example of taking artistic sensibility way, way too far.  The cover photos, front(al) and back – are NOT pretty.  One will notice the astonishing amount of gravity in the room where the pictures were taken, also.  The “music”, or whatever one would choose to call the sonic smorgasbord that is on the record, is quite bizarre.  But, it really is an essential to any Beatles / Lennon collection.  There are a couple of marks on the end of side two that will probably be audible and may cause a skip – the last five minutes or so.  Otherwise, the vinyl is spot-on.

The vinyl is in excellent condition, except for the two marks noted above in the description.  The cover and the bag sleeve are in near-mint condition, as shown in the photo.            

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NOTE:  Sealed albums are collectible because they are sealed.  Since I do not own a store, I cannot return items to the manufacturer.  Once an album is opened, I cannot refund the purchase price in full because opening significantly affects its value.

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